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A set of PICO-8 carts to help someone learn various game development concepts.

A simple reference cart to show the results of the main PICO-8 drawing functions.

A simple reference cart showing the PICO-8 color palette.

A cart showing the basics of using buttons for movement.

A beginner-level tutorial for making a top-down adventure game in PICO-8.

A heavily-commented cart showing how to move a player with inertia.

A cart showing the basic game loop of PICO-8.

A heavily-commented cart showing show to do simple projectiles in PICO-8.

A heavily-commented cart showing how to create particle systems in PICO-8.

A heavily commented PICO-8 cart on how to make the camera follow the player.

A heavily commented PICO-8 cart showing how to do smooth map screen transitions.

A heavily-commented cart showing how to transition to different map screens.

A cart showing how the fill patterns function of PICO-8 works.

A heavily-commented cart showing how to add gravity to an object.

A heavily commented cart that shows how to animate items.

A heavily-commented cart for creating different game states (menu, game, game over, etc.).

A heavily-commented demonstration of using pickups.

A heavily-commented demonstration of simple movement with map collision.

A heavily-commented demonstration of simple map-based grid movement.

A simple reference cart to use when translating written music to PICO-8.

A tutorial for doing simple animation in PICO-8.

An easy-to-follow demonstration of a random maze algorithm.

A simple tutorial for checking overlap between two boxes.

A simple explanation of ternary operators. (A.K.A. The ninja "if"!)